I was in the church hallway trying to locate all my children so that we could begin our walk home, when Link walked up to me smirking. This was his “I have been very clever and gotten away with something” smirk. I took a second look at him and he said,
“Are you looking at my paper tie?”
I looked down and he was indeed wearing a tie made out of a sheet of notebook paper. I’d been so focused on the smirk, that I hadn’t even noticed the tie.
“Why are you wearing a paper tie?” I asked, knowing full well that his silk tie was balled up in the pocket of his white shirt. I’d seen the tie there during sacrament meeting earlier and mentioned that he might want to put it on.
“I couldn’t put my tie on by myself, so a made a paper one.” Link answered smugly.
I smiled in return at his ingenuity in solving the problem of wearing a tie at church. Next week I’ll try to make sure that the leaving-for-church departure is a little less harried. Then I’ll have time to fish the crumpled tie from his shirt pocket and help him put it on.
Of course if I do forget, I’m sure Link will be quite pleased to have a reason to make another paper one.
That is very cute.